Movies Like Dolores Claiborne

If you liked Dolores Claiborne (1995), a crime and drama movie directed by Taylor Hackford, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
A Good Woman Is Hard to Find (2019)
★ 6.1/10Also crime and drama
The recently widowed mother of two, Sarah, is desperate to know who murdered her husband in front of her young son, rendering him mute. Coerced into helping a low-life drug dealer stash narcotics stolen from the local…
2
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 (2009)
★ 6.6/10Also mystery and crime
Yorkshire, 1974. Fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit…
3
Luckiest Girl Alive (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and mystery
A successful woman in New York City finds her life upended when she is forced to confront a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life.
4
Death Wish (2018)
★ 6.2/10Also crime and drama
A mild-mannered father is transformed into a killing machine after his family is torn apart by a violent act.
5
Marlowe (1969)
★ 6.2/10Also crime and mystery
Mysterious Orfamay Quest hires Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe to find her missing brother. Though the job seems simple enough, it leads Marlowe into the underbelly of the city, turning up leads who are…
6
Cleveland Abduction (2015)
★ 7.3/10Also crime and drama
A single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.
7
Lizzie (2018)
★ 6.2/10Also crime and drama
Massachusetts, 1892. An unmarried woman of 32 and a social outcast, Lizzie lives a claustrophobic life under her father's cold and domineering control. When Bridget Sullivan, a young maid, comes to work for the family…
8
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
★ 7.2/10Also mystery and crime
One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to…
9
Mississippi Burning (1988)
★ 7.7/10Also drama and crime
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in…
10
The Killer Inside Me (2010)
★ 5.8/10Also crime and drama
Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he is a little slow and maybe boring, but that is the worst they say about him…
11
The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain (2021)
★ 7.3/10Also mystery and drama
Based on the true story of the events that led to the death of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., an elderly African American veteran with bipolar disorder, who was killed during a conflict with police officers who were…
12
Joe the King (1999)
★ 5.8/10Also crime and drama
A destitute 14-year-old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hands, harsher abuse at his father's, and a growing separation from his slightly older brother.
13
Killer Joe (2012)
★ 6.5/10Also crime and drama
A cop who moonlights as a hit man agrees to kill the hated mother of a desperate drug dealer in exchange for a tumble with the young man's virginal sister.
14
Hannibal (2001)
★ 6.8/10Also crime and drama
After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He…
15
Brooklyn's Finest (2010)
★ 6.3/10Also crime and drama
Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's sixty-fifth precinct. Three police officers struggle with the sometimes…
16
Out for Justice (1991)
★ 6.2/10Also crime and drama
Gino Felino is an NYPD detective from Brooklyn who knows everyone and everything in his neighborhood. Killing his partner was someone's big mistake... because he's now out for justice.
17
Cop Land (1997)
★ 6.8/10Also crime and drama
Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he’s long admired. Yet something ugly is taking place behind the town’s…
18
Body Double (1984)
★ 6.7/10Also crime and mystery
After losing an acting role and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finally catches a break: he gets offered a gig house-sitting in the Hollywood Hills. While peering through the beautiful home's telescope one night, he spies…
19
The Funeral (1996)
★ 6.8/10Also crime and drama
After the funeral of one of their own, a criminal family decides to embark on an emotionally unnerving journey in an attempt to exact bloody revenge.
20
Se7en (1995)
★ 8.4/10Also crime and mystery
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the…